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Meadowbridge Community Market is a free grocery store that provides food and health supplies to 200-300 families per week, and they continue to mitigate the spread of Covid as part of their holistic approach to community care. Join me in helping them buy their building! givebutter.com/buymcm

One of the biggest problems starting in 2020 and continuing today is using surgical masks to prevent the spread of airborne illnesses - that's just not what they're for, causing confusion about if "masks work." Surgicals are mediocre at best for how they've been used the last 6 yrs.

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clocking in as RFK jrs worst nightmare (kn95 wearing angeleno alone in car stuffed to the gills with n95s free distribution) #DoMaskBlocShit

No organ or system this virus cannot access and destroy ☠️ Endocrine complications of COVID-19: diabetes, musculoskeletal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and gonadal disorders academic.oup.com/jes/article/...

PSA: get your flu shot now if you haven't already Using last year's flu trends as a template, from today we expect infection rates to double every 1.5 weeks, peaking ~2 months from now. After vax, immunity takes 1.5 weeks to kick in, peaks at 1-2 months, decays after 3 months.

Science YouTuber Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) had over 2 million subscribers when she developed Long COVID after falling ill on her honeymoon in 2022. Brain fog, headaches and other symptoms turned her life upside down. Despite some improvement, she functions at just 30–40% of her previous capacity.

This is a 40% reduction in access to care for 8500+ patients, and neither the clinic nor patients were informed until last week. There are already huge barriers to LC & ME care in BC. My research team's virtual care guidebook mentioned in the article is linked here: drive.google.com/file/d/103RT...

Thank you to everyone who still makes the courageous choice to mask, even if it’s not what everyone else is doing

We are learning so much more about the importance of prevention and yet see society as a whole (including scientists) doing so much less to protect themselves…Makes no sense. “COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms” www.science.org/content/arti...

A lot of you have been frustrated with your school district, and we get it. But we want to talk to the people who have been making the decisions that affect kids’ and teachers’ health and tell them we understand the challenges they’re up against.  #CleanAirKits #cleanairinschools #airpurifiers

AirFanta 5Pro Officially Launched: Two Years in the Making, Fully Evolved We are excited to announce the launch of our new air purifier, the AirFanta 5Pro, following two years of design and manufacturing.

As a Covid long hauler, while I appreciate the vaccine encouragement, it is deeply frustrating to see yet another physician, who sees LC patients, foregoing the best tool for reducing transmission at the source. Please wear a mask, ideally KF94, KN95, or N95. Keep yourself and others safe.

"Organizers often say that they ask those who are sick to stay home — but this ignores the fact that many SARS-CoV-2 infections are asymptomatic and contribute to transmission. Masks are the best tool we have to prevent airborne infections... and any mask is better than no mask."

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: it’s so disheartening to see events ostensibly in the name my chronic illness(es)—conditions linked to sars2 infection as a trigger—that do not prioritize mitigation and thus the safety of attendees.

PSA. Flu season is starting very early this year. WW numbers aren't very high yet, but they are a couple of months ahead of schedule just about everywhere. Almost entirely H1N1. If you are getting a flu shot, don't put it off.

Our study on virus-specific T cell activation in Long COVID (LC) is up on bioRxiv! We identify a subset of people with LC with persistently elevated activation of CD8 T cells targeting spike and/or EBV lytic antigens, consistent with viral persistence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dear all the college kids, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, All your professors

The CDC might take away a key data source on Long COVID and ME. You have until this Tuesday, October 20, to tell them why that would be a mistake. The advocacy group Solve ME has put together a script that people can use to leave a comment: solvecfs.org/cdc-me-cfs-l...

Asking my followers to please, take a minute out of your day and drop a public comment at the link that supports continuing to count Long Covid and ME in this survey. This is vital to people like me. Please help!

This #ME/CFS story, which ws flagged up first by BBC Sport, has got legs. Now it's been carried by celebrity website People.com people.com/olympic-spri... | Well done, Beth, and thank you. #BethDobbin

This young Olympian had very mild infection but is now severely disabled. I have been asked why I still mask when death is now rare from COVID in Australia. It is not dying I am worried about.

Her illness started with Covid, and despite her incredible, international-competition level fitness at the time. I don’t know who exactly would have to get this for healthy people to understand that when they get Covid, which they will continue to get, they are spinning a chamber and firing the gun.

How can virtual care better support #LongCOVID patients? @wanderingkayli.bsky.social launched a new guidebook based on a national survey of 621 people and patient focus groups. It offers recommendations to improve access to virtual care across Canada. #VirtualCare

Middlesex University researchers interviewed 15 children with Long COVID, ages 9 to 16. Children described losing friendships, struggling in school, and missing years of childhood to fatigue and brain fog. Despite it all, they remained hopeful. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Barely warm take: if you feel an itch in your throat before a flight, wearing a mask shouldn't be optional. Otherwise you're being an ass to everyone on the flight.

New: AI data centers’ indirect water use - water consumed by power plants to generate electricity for power-hungry server farms - is magnitudes larger than the facilities’ onsite water consumption and is largely undisclosed. Free link. With @mchediak.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the fact that like two weeks after a massive gang rape story breaks a fifteenth rate comedian can wander onto national television and call women whores and there are no repercussions and really not much outcry is a big problem for me.

Almost 200,000 New Zealanders are now living with long COVID – where is the government plan? theconversation.com/almost-200-0...

Love this. Please understand, even if these events aren’t for you, they are for a community suffering from social isolation, and you could help.

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

Honestly this stuff isn’t that complicated, if you met two people at a party and one of them wrote a book and one of them used ChatGPT to self publish a book, who would be the cooler person What if someone was painting at the party and a guy next to them pulled out a phone and generated an image